Pandora’s Promise

Directed by: Robert Stone

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Q&A with director Robert Stone

“When was the last time you saw a documentary that fundamentally changed the way you think?” – Entertainment Weekly

The recent reactor meltdowns in Japan have ignited passionate worldwide debate about energy and the future of nuclear power. PANDORA’S PROMISE is a feature-length documentary that explores how and why mankind’s most feared and controversial technological discovery is now passionately embraced by many of those who once led the charge against it. The film is anchored around the personal narratives of a growing number of leading former anti-nuclear activists and pioneering scientists who, in the face of considerable controversy, are directly challenging the anti-nuclear orthodoxy that is a founding tenet of the mainstream environmental movement. Their stories and ideas will be brought to life through a combination of incredible archival footage from 1945 to the present and original filming across the globe.

Operating as history, cultural meditation and contemporary exploration, PANDORA’S PROMISE aims to inspire a serious and realistic debate over what is without question the most important question of our time: how do we continue to power modern civilization without destroying it?

A big congratulations to the four films we’re playing that took home major prizes from the New York Film Critics Circle: THE BABADOOK for Best First Film, CITIZENFOUR for Best Nonfiction Film, TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (opening Dec 24, advance tickets now on sal …

While the MPAA has assigned CITIZENFOUR and BOYHOOD ratings of R, recommending that no one under 17 be admitted without a parent or guardian, IFC Center feels that both films are appropriate viewing for mature adolescents. Accordingly, the theater will adm …